It is time to introduce the first ever oil painting I've done (actually the second one, but since the first one is missing...). I had just bought my oil colours, water soluble ones, and I was trying to get the knack of using them. Back then, I still imagined I could do landscapes.
It is easy enough to try and create effects of shadow and light using only one colour, red. I'm actually quite happy with how the back of the picture looks to be darker than the front. As a model, I used a black-and-white photo of a quarry somewhere, believe it or not. There was a floodlight around the middle of the photo, and I just tried to imitate the way everything was lighted by it.
I love the almost unmixed red streaks next to the purple overall colours. I suppose I had an idea of painting a landscape on some moon, or a lifeless exoplanet, with an ominous atmosphere to it. But don't ask me what I was thinking with the phallos symbol in the middle.
Ok, I found the original photo.
So I got this from a stock photography site, but they'll never notice... it's not like I'm putting it here to decorate my site or to earn with it. I'm not sure if it really is a quarry or not - but the tower, whatever it is, obviously became the phallos/Doric column in the painting... I'm quite fond of this photo. It looks like it could be from the Moon or something.
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